National Republican., 1887-04-04

Of hell |" They are not always going to be
children. They are coming up to be the
men and women of this country. That
spark OF iniquity that might now be put
out with one drop Of the water Of life, will
become the conflagration of every green
thing that God ever planted in the soul.
That which ought to have been temple OF
the Holy Ghost will become SCARED ana
blistered ruin-every light quenched and
every altar In the dust. That petty thief
who slips into your store and takes yard OF
cloth from your counter will become the
highwayman Of the forest, or the burglar at
midnight, picking the lock of your money
safe and blowing up your store to hide the
villainy. A great army, with staggering
step, and bloodshot eye, and drunken hoot,
they are coming on-gathering recruits
from every grog shop and den Of infamy in
| the land, TO take the ballot box and hurrah
at the elections. The hard knuckled fist OF
ruifianism will have more power than the
gentle hand Of intelligence and sobriety
Men, bloated, and with the signature of sin
burned In from the top of the forehead
look honest men out Of counte-
nance. Moral corpses, which ought to
be buried hundred feet deep to
keep them from poisoning the air, will rot
in the face Of the sun at MONDAY. Indus
try In her plain frock will be unappreciated.
while thousands Of men will wander around
in idleness, with their hands on their hips,
saying: 1.-THE world owes us living" o.!
what tremendous power there is in
iniquity when, uneduoated and unre.
strained and unblanched, 1t goes on concen-
trating, and deepening, and widening, and
gathering momentum until 1t swings ahead
with very triumph Of desolation, drown
| ing like surges, scorching like flames, crush
| ing like rocks! What are you going to do
| with this abandoned population Of the
streets? Will you gather them In your
churches? 1t is not the will Of your Hea-
venly Father that one of these little ones
should perish II you have ten respectable
children in your class gather In ten that are
not respectable. II In your Bible class there
be twenty young men who have come from
Christian homes and elegant surroundings
let those twenty young men go out and
gather In twenty more of the young
men OF the city who are lost to God
and lost to society. This outside pop,
ulation, unless educated and restrained,
will work terror 10 ages that are
to come. Years ago, at New Orleans, when
the cholera was raging fearfully, steam
boat put out just before nightfall, crowded
with passengers who were trying to escape
from the pestilenc After the boat had
been out little while the engineer fell
with the cholera. The captain, In conster-
nation, went down among the passengers
and asked: as there any one here who
knows anything about engineering ?" A
swarthy man replied, ~ am an engineer u
swell, - said the captain, "I would be very
glad II you would take charge Of this boat. y
The man went to the engine. The steamer
moved more rapidly, until, after awhile, the
captain and some passengers were alarmed
and they went TO see what was the matter
and they found that this was maniac en-
gineer, and that he was seated on the safety
valve, and as they came to him he said, ~
am commissioned OF Satan to drive this
steamer to hell !" and he fourished his
pistol and would not come down. But
after awhile, through some stratagem
he was brought from his position, and the
lives of the passengers were saved o my
friends, that steamer had no such peril al
our institutions are threatened with, II the
ignorant and unrestrained chil1ren OF thil
land shall come up in their ignorance ant
their crime to engineer our civil and religi
GUS institutions, and drive them on th'
rocks. Educate this abandoned population
or they will overthrow the institutions o
this land Gather them into your Sabbatl
schools. | congratulate you that man!
have been gathered. Go forth, teachers, Ii
the name OF the Lord Jesus Christ, and ol
u g coming SaDbaths may there be foun'
gathered scores and hundreds OF these wan
, derers, aud, instead of 1,S00 10 the Sabbath
school, we shall see 5000 or 1000, and tn
, grace OF God Will come down upon them
, and the Holy Spirit will bring them all Int
the truth
Another characteristic of a live church
one with appropriate architecture. In th
far west and amiu destitute population,
log church is very appropriate-the peopl
living In log houses But In commnnitle
! where, people live in comfortable abodes,
church uncommOdious or lacking In beaut
ia a moral nuisance. Because Christ wa
| born in mangsr 10 no reason why W